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Other Minds
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Can I know what another person is thinking or feeling? If so, how?
The problem of is a true philosophical enigma. It is apt to
strike children with no philosophical education whatsoever, yet remains
intractable to many academics. Broadly speaking, the problem can be
divided into three questions. F ....
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.... statements about other minds (although
there are exceptions, e.g. Peter Strawson’s attempt to argue
transcendentally for the existence of other minds through our own self-
consciousness). There have been a number of different attempts to do this.
J.S. Mill, who produced the first known formulation of the Other Minds
problem, used the so-called ‘Argument from Analogy’ both to explain how we
come to believe in other minds and to justify this belief. Briefly, the
argument holds that I am directly .... |
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